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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:
>> Usually the body is initialized as a copy of the relevant parts of the 
>> spec. GPS even has a menu command for this, which generates an .adb 
>> file, with null subprogram bodies, from an .ads file.
>
> Isn't it a proof that tools are trying to fix the language problem?

Not at all.  It's evidence that some users find such as tool useful.

Other users, I suspect most of them, wouldn't use that particular
feature, since they'd prefer to write the .ads and .adb as separate
files in the first place.

For example, I might write the .ads file first, then copy it to
the .adb file and edit it (since a lot of the text is duplicated).

A lot of people *prefer* having separate .ads and .adb files.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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